80. Jimi & the Galactic Empire

Suzie felt horrible sadness after the phone call. Killa was right that everyone’s going to die, one way or another. It’s ok if it was her, but she thought of her brother Timothy, who was now a missionary in Kenya, the only one of her family members she cared for. Both her parents were claimed by the pandemic. Suzie recalled her mixed emotions of tenderness and pity toward the people she could not love as she saw them take their last breaths on video call. She shed one tear. That’s all.

If she and baby survives she’ll make sure he didn’t have her upbringing. Allow him to explore the creative and even darker side of things. Let teenagers be what they are rather than repress their urges. She just needed to be a guide and a friend, someone he could open up and talk to, and with confident trust toward his mother, express his honest and raw emotions and actions.

But we live in such strange times. Gone was her starry eyed idolization of Zero. When Killa popped up at her front door, her jaw dropped. Naturally! But she wasn’t actually that surprised truthfully, kinda expected it in fact after her vivid dreams. She dreamt and immediately upon waking, he was there! Surely it was magic. What else could it have been? Suzie’s intrigue and excitement only grew when she found out Killa and Zero were aliens and there was a galactic opera battling behind. However she never sniffed a mote of extra-terrestrial scent on him. Killa was very human and became even more after loving her. He just stepped down from his star pedestal and morphed into a lover. Eight years they dated. Didn’t marry till recently during the pandemic; shortly after her folks died.

But of course all the fantastic were just stories, Killa’s tales of a universe at war - time bending mind benders. Even now with the shooting at the concert, there was nothing outer space about it. One needed faith to believe in robot spiders and angel futa killers. But she had an intuitive, even telepathic relationship with Killa. Every wild thing he mentioned she just knew to be true.

It must be so difficult for her husband. The timing couldn’t have been worse. Hunted by chicks with dicks during her third trimester. Baby born at the brink of war. Just at the point a man has to adapt to becoming a dad, her darling Killa has to bear the weight of saving or destroying the world, again. Shit was about to happen. Everything was going down the drain.

AI generated art prompted by author

This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons and events are coincidental. Use of names of public figures, places and events are purely fictional and are not representative of them.